Frome Rugby Football Club - Established 1883. Fielding three senior sides, Veterans, Academy, large Mini & Junior Section (ranging from under 6 to under 16)
10/12/2024
It’s Game Week for our Seniors & Academy |
Counties 1 Tribute Southern South
Sherborne RFC v Frome RFC
🗓️ Sat 14 Dec
⏰ 2.15pm KO
🏟️ Gainsborough Park, Sherborne
Counties 2 Tribute Dorset & Wilts Central
Yeovil RFC v Frome RFC II
🗓️ Sat 14 Dec
⏰ 2.30pm KO
🏟️ Church Lane, Yeovil
Counties 4 Tribute Somerset North
St Bernadette’s Old Boys II v Frome RFC III
🗓️ Sat 14 Dec
⏰ TBC KO
🏟️ Bamfield Road, Whitchurch
Friendly Fixture
Bradford on Avon RFC Colts v Frome RFC Academy
🗓️ Sun 15 Dec
⏰ 2pm KO
🏟️ Ashley Lane, Winsley
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09/12/2024
December 31st - Join us at The Lane as we host the 365 miles for WHY 2024 FINAL MILE!
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Please share.. Let’s make it a mile to remember! 🫶
08/12/2024
The Annual Frome RFC Festive Fixture, The Paul Lovatt Cup is being held on Sat 28 December, KO at 2pm.
With the festive period not too far way (gulp!), the players and families of Frome RFC can start to look forward to a well deserved break over the Christmas period next month.
With mince pies and port, the order, the Club opens its door for a fun filled festive day with karaoke later in the evening. If you are returning to Frome over the holidays and would like to play please reach out to Paul Lovatt or contact us at [email protected]
📸 Nick Perry Photography (2023 Fixture)
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08/12/2024
The Clubhouse will be OPEN today from 2pm to 7pm, with the Frome RFC Children’s Christmas Part kicking off proceedings at 3pm. 🎅🏼🎄
We will also have today European Rugby fixtures on the Big Screens.
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08/12/2024
Frome RFC Update | Sunday 08 December
Due to the continued adverse weather conditions ALL rugby at The Lane today is Cancelled.
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07/12/2024
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Rain, wind or shine, Wildcat Sauna is the perfect balm for the weather! 🌦️✨🧖♂️ Step into the soothing warmth, unwind your mind and let the health benefits take over - detoxify, improve circulation and boost your mood. Come and warm up!
07/12/2024
Frome RFC Senior Rugby Fixtures Update |
Sadly all three Frome RFC Senior Fixtures are postponed today due to the adverse weather conditions brought on by Storm Darragh.
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06/12/2024
This weekends Senior Team Lineups | 1st XV
Counties 1 Tribute Southern South
Walcot RFC v Frome RFC
🗓️ Sat 07 Dec
⏰ 14.30 KO
🏟️ Albert Field, Lansdown, Bath
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06/12/2024
This weekends Senior Team Lineups | 2nd XV
Counties 2 Tribute Dorset & Wilts Central
Frome RFC v Westbury RFC
🗓️ Sat 07 Dec
⏰ 2pm KO
🏟️ The Lane, Frome
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06/12/2024
👏⭐ Thank you- International Volunteers Day!⭐👏
Coming to the end of International Volunteers Day, we want to say a big THANK YOU to all the hard working volunteers in our County who give up their time to make rugby happen. Thank you to all those who volunteer at our community clubs and to those who give up their time to make rugby happen at Somerset RFU, from coaches, admin teams and CB committee members!
Minehead Barbarians North Petherton RFC Rebels Rugby Cheddar Valley RFC Yatton Rugby Club Bristol Telephone Area RFC Bath Old Edwardians RFC Combe Down RFC Clevedon RFC Winscombe R.F.C Walcat Girls Wincanton Rugby Club Bridgwater & Albion Rugby Football Club Wiveliscombe RFC Yeovil Rugby Club Wellington Chiefs RFC - Official Wyvern Rugby Club Wells RFC Taunton Rugby Football Club Bristol Imperial RFC BURNHAM RUGBY CLUB Old Redcliffians RFC Bath Saracens RFC Gordano Rugby Football Club Bristol Barbarians RFC Chard Rugby Club Avon RFC Frome Rugby Football Club St Bernadettes Old Boys Rugby Club Crewkerne RFC Old Culverhaysians RFC Avonvale RFC Hornets RFC Bath RFC Girls Bath Rugby Ladies Keynsham Rugby Chew Valley RFC Stothert & Pitt RFC Midsomer Norton Rugby Club Bristol Harlequins RFC Walcot Rugby Weston-super-Mare RFC Castle Cary RFC Somerton RugbyTor Rugby Club BLAKEBEARS RFC Est 1994 (TOGETHER AS ONE)
05/12/2024
Frome RFC Seniors Recruiting |
We are actively recruiting new players to join our senior squad. No matter your shape, size, background, or skill level….rugby is a sport for all and there is a place for you at Frome RFC.
🔴 Returning to rugby?
⚪️ Looking for a new hobby or challenge?
⚫️ Fancying a change of club?
🔴 Want to improve your fitness?
⚪️ Recently moved to the area?
⚫️ Want to play a team sport?
We have 4 senior mens teams at the club playing at various levels:
1st XV - Counties 1 Southern South
2nd XV - Counties 2 Dorset & Wilts Central
3rd XV - Counties 4 Somerset North
Cavalry XV (vets) - Social fixtures
We have fantastic training facilities at the club with access to:
• 6 Grass Pitches (including 1 Floodlit Pitch)
• Floodlit training area
• Strength and Conditioning Equipment
We also have very impressive off field facilities boasting a spacious Clubhouse including 3 indoor bars and balcony area as well as a 2 beer gardens and an outdoor bar.
For more information please drop us a message or email to [email protected]
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04/12/2024
This Sundays Frome RFC Mini & Junior Fixtures |
Mixed U6 - Training
Mixed U7, U8, U9, U11 v Chew Valley (A) KO 10.00
Mixed U10 v Chew Valley (A) KO 11.00
Boys U12 v Chew Valley (A) KO 11.00
Boys U13 v Midsomer Norton (A) KO 11.00
Boys U14 v Midsomer Norton (H) KO 11.00
Boys U15 v Midsomer Norton (H) KO 11.30
Boys U16 v Warminster (H) KO 11.30
Walcat Girls U16 v North Somerset BaBas KO 14.00
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04/12/2024
It’s Game Week for our Academy XV
U18s Somerset League | North
Frome RFC Academy v Gordano RFC Colts
🗓️ Sun 08 Dec
⏰ 2pm KO
🏟️ The Lane, Frome
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04/12/2024
The Frome RFC Clubhouse Shop will be open from 10am this Sunday.
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03/12/2024
Frome RFC Children’s Christmas Party | 🎄🎅🏼
The Annual Children’s Christmas Party will be held on Sunday 8th December.
Starting at 3pm and finishing at 5pm, the party will have an entertainer alongside a special guest 🎅🏼🎁
The Party is £2 entry per Child, which includes a selection box and you can also bring your own present (with your child’s full name clearly marked) for Father Christmas to gift to your child if you wish.
There will be a list available from Sunday at the Clubhouse to put your name down and an option to pay then or on the day.
Siblings or non rugby players welcome.
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03/12/2024
Date for the Diary | 🎄🎅🏼
With the festive period not too far way (gulp!), the players and families of Frome RFC can start to look forward to a well deserved break over the Christmas period next month.
However, there will still be plenty of rugby action at The Lane when the Annual Frome RFC ‘Town V Gown’ Paul Lovatt Cup will be held on Sat December 28th.
The annual Christmas fixture, now played in honour of Club Stalwart Paul Lovatt, sees a select Frome RFC ‘Town’ XV face the returning ‘Gown’ XV - a team made up of Frome RFC players who are either studying away at University or who have moved away from the town, but return for the holidays.
With mince pies and port, the order, the Club opens its door for a fun filled festive day with karaoke later in the evening. All will be welcome.
If you are returning to Frome over the holidays and would like to play please reach out to Paul Lovatt or contact us at [email protected]
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The pitches are all ready for today’s Army Rugby Union Premiership Semi Finals.
Games kick off from 12.30pm
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Frome RFC Highlights | Veo Rugby
We’ve put together some of the ‘try’lights from Saturdays home win over Paignton RFC. The win sees the side head to Kingsbridge RFC this Saturday for the quarter finals of the Papa Johns Community Cup | Counties 1 South Plate.
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This Weeks ‘Play of the Week’ comes from Sundays Frome RFC Academy Fixture.
A fantastic barn storming run from Nick Powell sees him put the pass away for the Captain, Kayden Henley to finish with a dive into the corner to score.
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Frome RFC Junior News | 🇬🇧🏋🏻♂️
The Club would like to congratulate Frome RFC U16s player Liam Backhurst on his British Record of 95kg at the GPCGB Welsh Championships, British record in the T1 class.
Liam had also qualified for the British Championships and also European Championships 🙌
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Our Try of the Week from last weekend came from the Academy’s away fixture, with a move straight from the training ground and a try by Archie Coleman.
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Frome Rugby Football Club began to represent the town from which it takes its name in 1883.
There were a number of local sides playing regularly but these represented local organisations rather than the town itself. In 1886 the club affiliated to the Frome Athletic Club. Although the records are missing, it would appear that the first Captain was probably H. B. Sheppard. Until the First World War the clubs main Headquarters was at the Angel Hotel, games were played at Wallbridge. At the Annual General Meeting on Thursday 16th December 1886 it was discussed that a second team should be set up and an invitation to Lord Weymouth to become President of the club, this was duly accepted.
What then was it like to be a member of Frome Rugby Club in the 1880s? Certainly any excuse for a dinner was good enough. On the field of play there was a variety of opposition. Shepton Mallet had a team as did Selwood Printing Works. For the match played against the latter on 19th February 1887 it is recorded that a large crowd was expected: “Attention is drawn to the fact that a hole was made in the hedge surrounding the Pitch and anyone doing the same or similar deed will be prosecuted” The field was kindly loaned by Mrs Sinkins. It was normal in those days for large crowds to attend and to pay gate money. At the Athletic Clubs meeting at the end of the 1888-1889 it was recorded that the cost of running the Rugby Club for the season as £5.8s.7d Nine days after the outbreak of the First World War, the Rugby Union called upon its players to join the forces, this was taken up by the players of Frome Rugby Football Club. So devastating was the effect of war that it was not until 1926 that the club finally started playing again.
On the 28th April 1926 a meeting of interested people was held in the Lamb Hotel, Bath Street and the club was formally re-established. The interest was such that a second team was formed, the home pitch in those days was at the top of the Nunney Road. Match fees were 1 shilling, transport was by any available means from bicycle to charabanc. The big social event of the year was the Annual Rugby Dance. The Annual Dance was a lavish affair whose importance upstaged even the Annual Dinner.
At the AGM held at the Lamb Hotel the Chairman presented Mr L. B. Browne with a wrist watch in recognition of his efforts in the successful revival of the club. Shortly after this the clubs headquarters moved to the George Hotel, which remained the principal venue until the Second World War. The record during the years between the wars showed a sharp decline in performance as both the 1st XV and the A XV lost approximately 50% of their matches played between 1926 & 1937. In the period after the Second World War the club was to face many problems. With many young local men still in the forces, much of the recruitment to the club was from military establishments. It seems that local schools did not supply the club with a ready source of players, since not much rugby was played.
Soon problems arose over finding suitable after match venues and the club was to lose the Nunney Road ground, which it had held since 1926. A joint venture with the Cricket Club and the Frome and District Agricultural Society led to the building of a new club house which was opened in 1975. Between 1954 and 1975 the club moved its playing fields from the Showground to Berkeley Road, thence to Bath Road playing fields, to Gypsy Lane. At times the club also played at pitches at Oldford, Clink Road and Critchill.
As regards Headquarters, also moves were not infrequent. The principal venue after the war was the Sun Inn, in 1953 they moved back to the Lamb Hotel. The next move was to Mansford wine vaults, from there to The Crown and on occasions the Vine Tree. Although results were respectable during the post war period, Frome was probably not one of the stronger clubs in the area. By the early sixties the club had reached a low point, it was regarded by many more successful clubs as a somewhat ramshackle affair capable of producing coarse rugby but not usually associated with the finer elements of the game.
However there is a time in the tide of the affairs of rugby clubs. Slowly during the sixties the clubs
fortunes once again began to pick up. It has been rumoured that if the raising of a first team during the mid-sixties proved a problem a certain senior member of the club, responsible for fixtures and getting a team together, would wait until just before lunch time on match day and then raid the local
hostelries in order to press gang reluctant recruits.
In the late sixties thanks to the persistence of its officers the club was once again able to field a Second Fifteen. By the early Seventies the First Fifteen was able to consistently give a good account of itself against all-comers and the club was now able to run four sides and occasionally a fifth side. Of the many factors which led to this revival in fortunes one of the most important was the introduction of Rugby at the Frome Grammar School (now incorporated into the Frome College). This provided the club with a ready source of young players. The indications for the future are that the club can now boast strength in depth, which should help it to achieve a high standard of rugby for years to come.
Instrumental in keeping this standard as high as possible is of course the youth policy of the club. Over the last few years the most significant development in the running of the club has been the youth section with the Academy XV and the ever growing Mini & Junior teams with age groups starting from U6’s through to U16’s rugby.
The senior sides have also continued well with the First XV competing in the Wadworth 6X Southern Counties South League (level 7), recently reaching the promotion playoff game having finished 2nd in the league, the 2nd XV recently securing a fantastic season having only lost once and gaining promotion to Wadworth 6X Dorset & Wilts 1 North, the 3rd XV in the Wadworth 6X Dorset & Wilts 3 North league whilst the Academy XV competing locally in the Dorset & Wilts U18’s Merit Table. The Veterans (Frome Cavalry XV) still look to dust off the boots and take to the field against local and touring sides.
